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Domestic Violence Myths There are countless domestic abuse myths which are pervasive. This post seeks to address many domestic violence myths. Domestic violence is a private family matter between a...
View ArticleSenate Reauthorizes Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
This week, the US Senate voted overwhelmingly to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). Here is how the VAWA reauthorization vote went in the US Senate: sixty-eight (68) in favor,...
View ArticleVAWA NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION – JUNE 26, 2012
The National Task Force to End Domestic Violence and other advocacy organizations have marked June 26, 2012, as the National Day of Action for the Reauthorization of the real Violence Against Women...
View ArticleWas Monday a Good or Bad Day for the 2012 Romney Presidential Campaign?
There are forty-nine (49) days until the 2012 US Presidential Election. On Monday of this week, Mother Jones ran a story about a fundraiser for Mitt Romney held in a Boca Raton home on May 17, 2012...
View ArticleThe Workplace Responds to Domestic and Sexual Violence
In recognition of the growing prevalence of violence against women, in National Domestic Violence Awareness Month in 2010, the Obama administration launched a new initiative to assist employers to...
View ArticleNational Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims 2012
Today is National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. Every year, the families of murder victims struggle for justice. To the founders of the victims’ rights movement, justice meant that all...
View ArticleTell Congress to Send a Strong, Bipartisan Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)...
Congress went on recess without reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. The United States Senate passed its version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization bill by 68 to 31...
View ArticleWhat does economic autonomy have to do with domestic violence?
Domestic violence continues to pose a clear and present danger to the health and well-being of countless victims. An important factor to consider when pondering the question why doesn’t the victim...
View ArticleLegally Confronting Bullying Conduct
In response to the increasing number of deaths associated with bullying, there have been anti-bullying laws enacted across the country. Forty-four (44) states and the District of Columbia have enacted...
View ArticleDoes substance abuse lead to domestic violence?
Every 9 seconds in the US a woman is assaulted or beaten. Around the world, at least one in every three women has been beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused during her lifetime. Most often, the...
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